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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Bill Wulf resigns from the University of Virginia in protest
Eminent computer scientist Bill Wulf, who has been a leader by example for so many years in so many ways, has resigned from the University of Virginia to protest...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma
The work of Robert Axelrod and William Poundstone fascinated us in graduate school as we tried to apply AI techniques to decision strategies. I see that The Edge...
From Schneier on Security
Attack Against Point-of-Sale Terminal
Clever attack: When you pay a restaurant bill at your table using a point-of-sale machine, are you sure it's legit? In the past three months, Toronto and Peel...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Chemistry of Enthusiasm
Bain Insights: Which makes considerable sense. " ... The revenues and stocks of companies with highly engaged workers outperform those of companies with low engagement...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Safeway Supports Shopping Research
In Progressive Grocer: Safeway joins with Duke-Ipsos on shopping research. More on that effort. There has been relatively little I have found on this shopping...
From Schneier on Security
The Failure of Anti-Virus Companies to Catch Military Malware
Mikko Hyponnen of F-Secure attempts to explain why anti-virus companies didn't catch Stuxnet, DuQu, and Flame: When we went digging through our archive for related...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Video Mining
Analyzing raw video from cameras. Videomining, a company we talked to as a potential solution for analyzing retail video lab stores that examined shopping contexts...
From Wild WebMink
See you at OSCON?
I’ve news. My talk – about why OSI is more relevant than ever – has been accepted for OSCON
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Studio K
The other day the Kodu team announced Studio K. What is Studio K you ask? In my opinion it
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Universal Remotes
I see in Engadget the military is looking for universal remotes for drone fleets. I was thinking about the general idea of how to make a remote universal the other...
From My Biased Coin
Simons Institute Call
Alistair Sinclair asked me to post the call at http://simons.berkeley.edu/cfp_summer2012.html for the Call for Proposals for Simons Institute programs. The deadline...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shelf Publishing on the Kindle
Brought to my attention. Worth examining as an alternative to blogging with the ability to directly monetize the interaction.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Safeway Digitizes Club Card
An approach I think will continue to advance. Safeway takes some good steps. Making connections more digital, more App-like. This will connect data, information...
From Schneier on Security
England's Prince Phillip on Security
On banning guns: "If a cricketer, for instance, suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat,which he could do very...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Traditions of New Year
Teachers get to celebrate two New Years per year : The secular one in winter and the academic one in summer. As I finalize my grades, I can't help but reflect...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of June 18
June 19 Hearing: The Intellectual Property, Competition and the Internet Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on the public policy...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
On the quality of academic software
Software is eating the world. Despite a poor year, Facebook has a market capitalization of $65 billion. This little company with barely 2000 developers is worth...
From The Eponymous Pickle
QR Code Failures
Instructive examples of where the use of QR codes failed for specific brands. " ... review of hundreds of 2D-based campaigns, for every one campaign that does...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
National Academies
Last week, the National Academies released a report
From Computational Complexity